{"id":40,"date":"2010-03-07T01:35:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T08:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=40"},"modified":"2010-08-10T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:46:18","slug":"mary-j-blige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/03\/mary-j-blige\/","title":{"rendered":"MARY J. BLIGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mary-j-blige-album-cover-stronger.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41\" title=\"mary-j-blige-album-cover-stronger\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mary-j-blige-album-cover-stronger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mary-j-blige-album-cover-stronger.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mary-j-blige-album-cover-stronger-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary J Blige<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For her ninth album, the Queen Of Hip-Hop Soul has rounded up collaborators like Akon, Drake, T.I., The Runners and Rodney Jerkins\u2014but even this show of R&amp;B\/hip-hop cred can\u2019t hide the impression that Mary J. Blige is increasingly embracing the pop world. It\u2019s refreshing for a woman who has notoriously played the \u201cwoe-is-me\u201d card to offer such an upbeat and happy album, with optimism-drenched grooves that celebrate self-love (\u201cSaid and Done\u201d), horn-blasting flirtation (\u201cGood Love\u201d) and downright elation (\u201cI Feel Good\u201d). The ambitious orchestral epic \u201cWe Got Hood Love\u201d is particularly blessed with a great melody and an irresistible arrangement. Of course, it wouldn\u2019t be a Mary J. Blige album without one gut-wrenching tearjerker; the killer heartstring ballad here is the beseeching \u201cIn The Morning,\u201d where she pulls out all the stops. \u2013Nick Krewen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For her ninth album, the Queen Of Hip-Hop Soul has rounded up collaborators like Akon, Drake, T.I., The Runners and Rodney Jerkins\u2014but even this show of R&amp;B\/hip-hop cred can\u2019t hide the impression that Mary J. Blige is increasingly embracing the pop world. It\u2019s refreshing for a woman who has notoriously played the \u201cwoe-is-me\u201d card to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,170,32,168,169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}